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A future sovereign enters the Heian world
In the refined elegance of the Heian court, the future Emperor Murakami was born. He would become the sixty-second emperor of Japan, reigning from 946 to 967 during a golden age of Japanese culture when poetry, art, and court ritual reached extraordinary heights. His rule represented the zenith of imperial cultural patronage in a period that shaped Japanese aesthetics for centuries.
Eight nations storm a besieged Chinese city
The armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance, a multinational force of some 45,000 troops from Germany, Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, captured Tientsin during the bloody Boxer Rebellion. The fall of the strategic port city marked a decisive moment in the campaign to relieve foreign legations besieged in Beijing by anti-foreign Boxer militants.
Korean War: North Korean troops began attacking the headquarters of the American 24th Infantry Division in present-day Daejeon, South Korea.
The Korean War was an armed conflict on the Korean peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations Command (UNC) led by the United States. The war, which ended in stalemate, was the first great clash of arms of the Cold War and was one of, if not its deadliest proxy war.